'Henry V' is a gripping retelling of Shakespeare's famous historical play. Battles and scenes of warfare are never far from the young King Henry. This retelling brings to life the tumultuous struggle of the heroic young monarch as he fights to protect his kingdom and his life.
'Henry V' is a gripping retelling of Shakespeare's famous historical play. Battles and scenes of warfare are never far from the young King Henry. This...
Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark and fearful. Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan's little brother and Ivan braves the bitter cold to find him.
Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark and fearful. Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan's little brother and Ivan braves the bitter cold to fi...
It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe and Daz, the semi-literate ghetto dweller, whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement. When Zoe and her friends go slumming one day, she meets Daz - and it's Romeo and Juliet all over again. But their impossible relationship has far-reaching consequences ...
It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in forti...
One of a series offering classic and contemporary writing for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes. Suitable for study at GCSE level, this novel contains scenes which may be disturbing for younger readers.
One of a series offering classic and contemporary writing for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes. Suitable for study at GCSE level, this novel...
This is a contemporary tale about two friends--one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his community. During a dramatic explosion at the girls' school, a young teacher is killed. The asylum seekers at the local camp are blamed, and local people begin to argue that they should be deported. A branch of the National Front gets involved and demos are planned. Asra and her parents are due to be deported, but Asra runs away at the last minute so...
This is a contemporary tale about two friends--one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya,...
There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room l2. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister.
There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of...
George is fascinated by World War II--even evacuation and rationing has got to be more exciting than living in dreary old Witchfield He is looking forward to his school trip to Eden Camp, a World War II museum, but he never could have imagined how authentic this visit to wartime Britain will be. A hand reaching out of the fake rubble, a slip in time, and George has to survive something much worse than boredom. The rubble is now real--he has slipped through time into 1940s London. Imagine being alive before your parents were even born
George is fascinated by World War II--even evacuation and rationing has got to be more exciting than living in dreary old Witchfield He is looking fo...
In Room 13, somebody was in there. Somebody--or some thing. There is no room 13 in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room twelve. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too--something very sinister. In Inside the Worm, the worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her. Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the...
In Room 13, somebody was in there. Somebody--or some thing. There is no room 13 in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her fr...
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone forever, right? Not any more. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct, and bring it back into the present. It is a wonderful achievement and an astounding scientific breakthrough. But the machine, "Rye's Apparatus," also has horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events that eventually leads to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization.
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone forever, right? Not any more. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine ...